2021 VIRTUAL and IN-PERSON CLASSES
Monday Morning Slow Flow
Mondays 9:00-10:00 AM In-person at Carolina Yoga Company in Carrboro This Slow Flow class is a great way to start your week: we'll move, breathe, stretch, and prepare our minds for the week ahead . Advanced sign-up and COVID-19 vaccination are required. Join us! |
Monday Pilates
Mondays 4:30 - 5:15 PM In-person at Carolina Yoga Company in Carrboro This fun core class is for any body, no core or Pilates experience needed. We'll move in challenging ways, but there will be plenty of modifications. Come experience the joys of a strong core! Advanced sign-up and COVID-19 vaccination are required. Join us! |
Mellow Monday Yoga
Mondays 6:00 - 7:15 PM In-person at The Bridge at Rivermill in Saxapahaw This all-levels class is for any body, no yoga experience needed. We'll move, breathe, meditate, and relax. Join us! While masks are preferred, this class is mask-optional for vaccinated people—please pay attention to the rates in our area and make a decision that aligns with your safety and the safety of others. This class is by donation. This class will be cancelled on -September 13 -October 18 -November 1 -December 20 -December 27 |
Virtual Postnatal Yoga
Wednesdays 12:00-1:00 PM Online Join us via this Zoom link! Code: WMYPost This is a class for postnatal mamas and folks at any period in their postnatal journey. We'll commiserate, move, breathe, and share the experience of new motherhood. This class is by donation: @desiato on Venmo |
VIDEOS
I have an assortment of class offerings on YogaVibes, including beginner flow yoga classes, short core classes, and a series of postnatal yoga classes. You can always use the code "alexandravibes" for a discount on a YogaVibes pass!
You can also find mini-classes, tips and sequences on YouTube and Vimeo.
The Vimeo classes include more postnatal and prenatal offerings.
The YouTube offerings are focused on yoga for healthy aging.
The Vimeo classes include more postnatal and prenatal offerings.
The YouTube offerings are focused on yoga for healthy aging.
SERIES, WORKSHOPS, AND EVENTS
The Whole Mama Yoga Fall Retreat, 2021
Monday, September 13, 2021
Extend your weekend and join me and Lauren Sacks on Monday, September 13 beginning at 9 AM for a one day, socially-distanced Yoga for Motherhood retreat at The Barn at Valhalla. We'll start with a moderately invigorating morning yoga practice, move into facilitated group discussion, and enjoy an outdoor lunch box. In the afternoon, there will be some personal time to explore the property, read, write, receive individual yoga instruction or relax. After that, we'll do more yoga and enjoy a couple of special surprises! The Whole Mama Yoga day-long retreat will end at 4:00 PM.
Monday, September 13, 2021
Extend your weekend and join me and Lauren Sacks on Monday, September 13 beginning at 9 AM for a one day, socially-distanced Yoga for Motherhood retreat at The Barn at Valhalla. We'll start with a moderately invigorating morning yoga practice, move into facilitated group discussion, and enjoy an outdoor lunch box. In the afternoon, there will be some personal time to explore the property, read, write, receive individual yoga instruction or relax. After that, we'll do more yoga and enjoy a couple of special surprises! The Whole Mama Yoga day-long retreat will end at 4:00 PM.
The Whole Mama Yoga 85-Hour Virtual Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher Training, Fall 2021
Three weekends: September 17-19, October 8-10, November 5-7, online
Learn to teach Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga! The needs, joys, and challenges specific to parents and women before, during, and after childbearing offers teachers the opportunity to deeply connect with parents during these momentous, transformational times in life. This 85 hour intensive will focus on a wide range of yoga for people in all phases and stages of parenthood and motherhood—from fertility and preconception to prenatal and postnatal yoga to yoga for parent and baby and beyond. It meets the requirements of the Prenatal Teacher Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA).This unique offering is perfect for yoga teachers, doulas, childbirth educators, and other care providers.
Three weekends: September 17-19, October 8-10, November 5-7, online
Learn to teach Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga! The needs, joys, and challenges specific to parents and women before, during, and after childbearing offers teachers the opportunity to deeply connect with parents during these momentous, transformational times in life. This 85 hour intensive will focus on a wide range of yoga for people in all phases and stages of parenthood and motherhood—from fertility and preconception to prenatal and postnatal yoga to yoga for parent and baby and beyond. It meets the requirements of the Prenatal Teacher Training standards of Yoga Alliance (YA).This unique offering is perfect for yoga teachers, doulas, childbirth educators, and other care providers.
Postnatal Reset Workshop
In person at Carolina Yoga Company in Carroboro
Two offerings:
Whether you’re six days postpartum or six years, this workshop with Alexandra is for you! Post-pregnancy, the abdominal muscles, hips, and pelvic floor can benefit from integrative poses and movements to get rocking again. We’ll discuss the changes your abs and hips have undertaken, and then we’ll move through a series of useful core-engagement activities and hip strengtheners to reawaken the ability of your body. And if you have tight and tired shoulders, we’ll look at ways to find relief. You’ll leave with a handout of movements you can do on your own at home to continue your strengthening journey.
$35; $30 until a week before
In person at Carolina Yoga Company in Carroboro
Two offerings:
- Saturday, September 18th, 9:30-11:00 AM
- Sunday, October 3rd, 1:00-2:30 PM
Whether you’re six days postpartum or six years, this workshop with Alexandra is for you! Post-pregnancy, the abdominal muscles, hips, and pelvic floor can benefit from integrative poses and movements to get rocking again. We’ll discuss the changes your abs and hips have undertaken, and then we’ll move through a series of useful core-engagement activities and hip strengtheners to reawaken the ability of your body. And if you have tight and tired shoulders, we’ll look at ways to find relief. You’ll leave with a handout of movements you can do on your own at home to continue your strengthening journey.
$35; $30 until a week before
Postpartum Healing: Process Your Birth Story, Move, and Breathe
In person in Durham, NC
Saturday, October 2, 2021
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
5015 Southpark Drive
Suite 250, Durham NC 27713
Join Melissa Ming Foynes, PhD, trauma and perinatal therapist and perinatal Ayurvedic specialist and Alexandra DeSiato, postpartum yoga instructor for a workshop of birth story processing, restorative movement, rest, and mindfulness. During our time together, we'll share, move, breathe, and connect with other mamas and birth parents who are similarly processing their labor and birth experience. Whatever your birth experience—expected or unexpected, whatever your feelings about it, however postpartum you are (2 weeks to 2,000 weeks), this is the workshop for you.
This workshop is by donation, with a suggested donation of $25-$75. We will email you in advance of the workshop with donation information and with a few suggestions about what to bring. If you have questions in the meantime, please contact us at wholemamayoga@gmail.com
In person in Durham, NC
Saturday, October 2, 2021
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
5015 Southpark Drive
Suite 250, Durham NC 27713
Join Melissa Ming Foynes, PhD, trauma and perinatal therapist and perinatal Ayurvedic specialist and Alexandra DeSiato, postpartum yoga instructor for a workshop of birth story processing, restorative movement, rest, and mindfulness. During our time together, we'll share, move, breathe, and connect with other mamas and birth parents who are similarly processing their labor and birth experience. Whatever your birth experience—expected or unexpected, whatever your feelings about it, however postpartum you are (2 weeks to 2,000 weeks), this is the workshop for you.
This workshop is by donation, with a suggested donation of $25-$75. We will email you in advance of the workshop with donation information and with a few suggestions about what to bring. If you have questions in the meantime, please contact us at wholemamayoga@gmail.com